"A Clockwork Orange (film) A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain. Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the central character, is a charismatic, antisocial delinquent whose interests include classical music (including Beethoven), committing rape, and what is termed ""ultra-violence"". He leads a small gang of thugs, Pete (Michael Tarn), Georgie (James Marcus), and Dim (Warren Clarke), whom he calls"
"Theatre Company. After the 2011–2014 alterations its area is now part of the library. A new theatre opened on First Street in partnership with Cornerhouse, Manchester in 2015. The conductor Sir John Barbirolli, was a regular user of the Music Library. Ewan MacColl, folk singer and playwright, educated himself in the library. Anthony Burgess, the novelist who wrote the cult classic ""A Clockwork Orange"", was a regular visitor to the library during his school days. In a volume of his autobiography, ""Little Wilson and Big God"" (1987) he recounted his visit to the index system, then in temporary accommodation in"
"university (namely the first working computer and the contraceptive pill). The university currently employs four Nobel Prize winners amongst its staff, more than any other in the UK. The Langworthy Professorship, an endowed chair at the University's School of Physics and Astronomy, has been historically given to a long line of academic luminaries, including Ernest Rutherford (1907–19), Lawrence Bragg (1919–37), Patrick Blackett (1937–53) and more recently Konstantin Novoselov, all of whom have won the Nobel Prize. In 2013 Manchester was given the Regius Professorship in Physics, the only one of its kind in the UK; the current holder is Andre"
"small number of audio recordings of Burgess' interviews and performances of his work. Over 90 books from Burgess' library can also be found in the Ransom Center's holdings. In 2014, the Ransom Center added the archive of Burgess' long-time agent Gabriele Pantucci, which also includes substantial manuscripts, sheet music, correspondence, and contracts. Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, his dystopian satire ""A Clockwork Orange"" remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was"
"The Duke of York, Fitzrovia The Duke of York is a public house at 47 Rathbone Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1. It is located in the north of the street on the corner with Charlotte Place and bears the year 1791. In 1943 Anthony Burgess and his wife were drinking in the pub when they witnessed it invaded by a ""razor gang"". It has been speculated that this influenced the content of his later novel ""A Clockwork Orange"". The current landlords are Debbie Sickelmore and Alan Monks. In 2012, the pub's licence was reviewed, after it was wrongly accused of failure"
"and Dying"". Dominic Green (science fiction writer) Dominic Green (born 1 January 1967) is a British writer of short science fiction. His short story ""The Clockwork Atom Bomb"" was nominated for a 2005 Hugo Award. Green is best known for his stories published in ""Interzone"" during the 1990s and 2000s (decade), many of which have been reprinted in various Year's Best anthologies. ""Interzone"" published a special issue devoted to Green and his stories in July 2009. Green has lived for much of his life in Bakewell and Northampton. He graduated in English from St Catharine's College, Cambridge and works in"
"are seven blue plaques in England that commemorate places associated with Tolkien: one in Oxford, one in Bournemouth, four in Birmingham and one in Leeds. One of the Birmingham plaques commemorates the inspiration provided by Sarehole Mill, near which he lived between the ages of four and eight, while two mark childhood homes up to the time he left to attend Oxford University and the other marks a hotel he stayed at before leaving for France during World War I. The plaque in West Park, Leeds, commemorates the five years Tolkien enjoyed at Leeds as Reader and then Professor of"
"bridge is a large roundabout adjacent to Wandsworth Town railway station, where Bridgend Road (A217), York Road (A3205), Swandon Way (A217) and Trinity Road (A214) meet. The roundabout is a noted example of 1960s modernist design, and served as the setting for parts of ""A Clockwork Orange"" in 1971. In 2007 approval was granted for a series of glass cone-shaped ""flames"" designed by architect Steven Lenczner, which would change colour with the tides, to be added to the bridge deck. The cost, estimated at £800,000, would be raised by private sponsorship. The ""flames"" were to be raised above the sightlines"
"campus. This involved selling off campus sites at Runnymede, Osterley and Twickenham and using the revenue from the sales to renovate and update the buildings and facilities on the Uxbridge campus. Works carried out included a library extension, a state-of-the-art sports complex, renovated students' union facilities, a new Health Sciences teaching centre, and the construction of more halls of residence. The Brunel campus (especially those buildings in the 1960s 'Brutalist' architectural style) has appeared in several films, most famously in Stanley Kubrick's ""A Clockwork Orange"", large parts of which were filmed on campus. It has also featured in several UK"
"Elton, Ade Edmonson and Rik Mayall. Additionally, a number of well-known actors have studied at the university, including Benedict Cumberbatch, who most notably portrays Sherlock Holmes in the TV series ""Sherlock"", as well as playing the role of Manchester's own Alan Turing in the 2014 Oscar-winning biopic ""The Imitation Game"". The University of Manchester, inclusive of its predecessor institutions, numbers 25 Nobel Prize recipients amongst its current and former staff and students, with some of the most important discoveries of the modern age having been made in Manchester. Manchester University has the fourth largest number of Nobel laureates in the"
"Andrew Ashworth Andrew John Ashworth, CBE, QC (Hon), FBA (born 11 October 1947) was the Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford from 1997 to 2013, a Fellow of All Souls College, and was formerly Chairman of the Sentencing Advisory Panel before it was abolished in 2010. He gained his LLB in 1968 from the London School of Economics, a BCL from Oxford in 1970, and a PhD in 1973 from the University of Manchester. Ashworth was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours. He has written extensively on"
"Alan Turing Memorial The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in Sackville Park in Manchester, England, is in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing. Turing is believed to have committed suicide in 1954 two years after being convicted of gross indecency (i.e. homosexual acts). As such he is as much a gay icon as an icon of computing, and it is no coincidence that this memorial is situated near Canal Street, Manchester's gay village. Turing is depicted sitting on a bench situated in a central position in the park. On Turing's left is the University of Manchester and on"
"Dominic Green (science fiction writer) Dominic Green (born 1 January 1967) is a British writer of short science fiction. His short story ""The Clockwork Atom Bomb"" was nominated for a 2005 Hugo Award. Green is best known for his stories published in ""Interzone"" during the 1990s and 2000s (decade), many of which have been reprinted in various Year's Best anthologies. ""Interzone"" published a special issue devoted to Green and his stories in July 2009. Green has lived for much of his life in Bakewell and Northampton. He graduated in English from St Catharine's College, Cambridge and works in information technology."
"Vera Brittain, Thomas Carlyle and Sir George Catlin. The Division of Archives and Research Collection also holds the only surviving manuscript of Anthony Burgess' ""A Clockwork Orange"". The manuscript, along with several of Burgess' early works, was acquired by McMaster as a result of Ready's persistence and eventual friendship with the author. McMaster's copy is of particular interest because it includes the final chapter that was omitted by American publishers of the work. The manuscript contains an annotation in Burgess' hand that reads ""Should we end here?"", indicating that he questioned its inclusion. Other items held by the Archives include"
"Malcolm Bowie Malcolm McNaughtan Bowie FBA (; 5 May 1943 – 28 January 2007) was a British academic, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2002 to 2006. An acclaimed scholar of French literature, Bowie wrote several books on Marcel Proust, as well as books on Mallarmé, Lacan, and psychoanalysis. Born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Bowie attended Woodbridge School, and then studied at the University of Edinburgh where he gained an MA in 1965. He was awarded a DPhil at the University of Sussex in 1970. His research fields were French literature, psychoanalysis and the relationship between literature and the arts."
"Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, his dystopian satire ""A Clockwork Orange"" remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was adapted into a highly controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and ""Earthly Powers"". He wrote librettos and screenplays, including for the 1977 TV mini-series ""Jesus of Nazareth"". He worked as a literary"
"on 24 June 2018 at the age of 74, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Michael Lockwood (philosopher) Michael John Lockwood was a British philosopher. Lockwood studied philosophy and psychology at Exeter College, Oxford, and did his doctorate at that university under the supervision of A. J. Ayer. For five years he was Assistant Professor in Philosophy at New York University, and was subsequently employed as a systems analyst for the New York and American Stock Exchanges. Lockwood was Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College (formerly Green College), Oxford, where he has taught philosophy for many years. His work includes articles"
"Alexander Watson (historian) Alexander James Watson (born 12 July 1979) is a British historian, writer, and professor. He is the author of two books, which focus on Britain and Central Europe during World War I. His most recent book, """", won numerous awards. Currently Watson is an exams officer and Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2000, Watson received his Bachelor of Arts (hons) degree in Modern history from Exeter College, Oxford. He began his doctoral degree in 2001 at Balliol College, Oxford, and completed in 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Clare Hall, Cambridge"
"chair in physiology at the university since 1994. One of the university's aims stated in the ""Manchester 2015 Agenda"" is to be one of the top 25 universities in the world, following on from Alan Gilbert's aim to ""establish it by 2015 among the 25 strongest research universities in the world on commonly accepted criteria of research excellence and performance"". In 2011, four Nobel laureates were on its staff: Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov, Sir John Sulston and Joseph E. Stiglitz. The EPSRC announced in February 2012 the formation of the National Graphene Institute. The University of Manchester is the ""single"
"James Chadwick and Alan Turing. A creative and often seen as a bohemian city, Manchester also had the highest number of patent applications per head of population in the United Kingdom in 2003. The city is served by the University of Manchester, previously UMIST and the Victoria University of Manchester pre-2004. The university has a total of 25 Nobel Laureates; only the Oxbridge universities have more Nobel laureates. The city is also served by the Museum of Science and Industry celebrating Mancunian, as well as national achievements in both fields. In 1630, astronomer William Crabtree observed the transit of Venus."
"Alison Ruth Sharrock Alison Ruth Sharrock (born 4 January 1963) is an English Classics scholar. She has been Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester since August 2000. In 2009, she gave the Stanford Memorial Lectures. Together with David Konstan of Brown University, she edits the series Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory published by Oxford University Press. Alison Sharrock graduated in 1984 from the University of Liverpool with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. She received her doctorate (PhD) from the University of Cambridge in 1988. She worked at Keele University from 1989 to 2000. In"
"Museum in London launched a free exhibition devoted to Turing's life and achievements in June 2012, to run until July 2013. In February 2012, the Royal Mail issued a stamp featuring Turing as part of its ""Britons of Distinction"" series. The London 2012 Olympic Torch flame was passed on in front of Turing's statue in Sackville Gardens, Manchester, on the evening of 23 June 2012, the 100th anniversary of his birth. On 22 June 2012 Manchester City Council, in partnership with the Lesbian and Gay Foundation, launched the Alan Turing Memorial Award, which will recognise individuals or groups who have"
"in Sackville Park, between the University of Manchester building on Whitworth Street and Canal Street. The memorial statue depicts the ""father of computer science"" sitting on a bench at a central position in the park. Turing is shown holding an apple. The cast bronze bench carries in relief the text 'Alan Mathison Turing 1912–1954', and the motto 'Founder of Computer Science' as it could appear if encoded by an Enigma machine: 'IEKYF ROMSI ADXUO KVKZC GUBJ'. However, the meaning of the coded message is disputed, as the 'u' in 'computer' matches up with the 'u' in 'ADXUO'. As a letter"
"Clockwork (novel) Clockwork (also called Clockwork, or All Wound Up) is an illustrated short children's novel by Philip Pullman, first published in the United Kingdom in 1996 by Doubleday. It was first published in the United States by Arthur A. Levine Books in 1998. The Doubleday edition was illustrated by Peter Bailey and the Arthur A. Levine Books edition was illustrated by Leonid Gore. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award and for a Carnegie Medal in 1997. Pullman said his novel was inspired by an old clock he came across in London's Science Museum. Noting the movement"
"is especially remembered for his dystopian novel ""A Clockwork Orange"" 1962. Mervyn Peake (1911–68) published his Gothic fantasy Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. Angela Carter (1940–1992) was a novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Writing from the 1960s until the 1980s. Sir Salman Rushdie is among a number of post Second World War writers from former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" (1981). His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" (1989) was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia (now"
"his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. Until 1994 he worked as a probation officer in Greater Manchester. He has lectured on creative writing at the University of Leeds, the University of Iowa, and was senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has made literary, history and travel programmes for BBC Radios 3 and 4; and since 1992 he has written and presented a number of TV documentaries. From 2009-2012 he was Artist in Residence at London's South Bank, and in February 2011 he became Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. In October"
"Ireland he joined the Irish Socialist Workers Party. He was later a supporter of the London Socialist Historians Group, which now holds an annual memorial lecture in his honour. Brian Manning (historian) Brian Manning (21 May 1927 – 24 April 2004) was a leading British Marxist historian, particularly of the English Civil War of the 17th century. A student of Christopher Hill, his best known work was ""The English People and the English Revolution"". Manning himself went to Lancing College, winning the Brackenbury Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. He was appointed to a lectureship at Manchester in 1959, and, in"
"as did the death of English writer Aldous Huxley, author of ""Brave New World"". This coincidence was the inspiration for Peter Kreeft's book ""Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, & Aldous Huxley"". Lewis is commemorated on 22 November in the church calendar of the Episcopal Church. Lewis began his academic career as an undergraduate student at Oxford University, where he won a triple first, the highest honours in three areas of study. He was then elected a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he worked for nearly thirty years, from"
"He was appointed OBE in 1947 and CBE in 1970. He was an Anglican and died of a heart attack in his local church at Hatch End, London, on Easter Sunday 1990. He was educated at Leigh Grammar School in Leigh, where he learned Russian. He graduated BA in Russian in 1931 and MA in 1932 from the University of Liverpool which had the first Russian chair in the country. He wrote his PhD thesis at the School of Slavonic Studies on ""Great Britain, Russia and the Eastern question, 1832–1841"" in 1933. After gaining his PhD, from 1937-8 he was"
"the United Kingdom in The Complete University Guide, marking another jump forward for the university. The University of Lincoln's official logo from 2001 to 2012 was the head of Minerva, the Ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and knowledge. From July 2012 the logo was changed to incorporate the university's coat of arms, which features swans, fleur de lys and books. Located in the Great Central Warehouse building, a renovated former industrial railway goods warehouse, the Library was opened in December 2004 on the Brayford campus. In total, the university's libraries house over 300,000 books, journals, and other articles of reference."
"Jeremy Tambling Jeremy Tambling ""B.A"", ""M.Phil"", ""PhD"" (18 February 1948) is a British writer and critic. He was Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong until 2006 and then Professor of Literature at the University of Manchester until December 2013. He has won a number of awards for his scholarship including research grants for his work on Blake, Dante, and Henry James and is a recurring face on the conference scene; four times on Dickens in 2012. Tambling’s literary interests range from Boccaccio to Kafka, Chaucer to Cinema. More specifically he has published books on Blake, Dickens"
"his work has concentrated on Britain, its influence has registered worldwide, not only in Britain and North America. He was born in Paddington, London in 1945, the child of Irish rural immigrants. He was educated in a West London secondary modern school, and worked after leaving school early, before studying history and English literature at the University of Keele. He did his graduate work in history at Balliol College Oxford. He is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester, and has been appointed to numerous visiting professorships in history and sociology, including at the University of California, Berkeley"
"taught until retiring in 1990 to focus solely on research and scholarship. He is a fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. A unique award in Loewe's honour exists at Cambridge: the ""Michael Loewe Prize"" may be awarded annually to one or more undergraduate candidates who have achieved distinction in literary Chinese. Michael Loewe Michael Arthur Nathan Loewe (born 2 November 1922) is a British Sinologist, historian, and writer who has authored dozens of books, articles, and other publications in the fields of Classical Chinese and ancient Chinese history. Michael Loewe was born on 2 November 1922 in Oxford, England, to a"